I’ve been thinking that I’d like to continue to work on my math wiki as my major digital project. I created this wiki primarily to give myself a place to organize the Jing screencasts I was taking of concepts I was teaching in my math clasees. Although I started this wiki a month before class began, I’d really like to spend some more time working on it, and I think that this course may be just the excuse that I needed. The eventual goal (not by the end of ECI 831, but eventually) is to have instruction on 75% or more of the high school math content in SK available on the wiki, though the resource will continue to grow the longer I teach (I hope!).
Some ideas that I’ve had regarding how to extend it include tossing up my daily examples (course lecture notes) since I have them typed anyway, though I’m a bit concerned about copyright there, as I’ve borrowed liberally from some textbooks for those examples (a local SK one in particular). Even throwing up a number of practice sets for students to have access to would be a start.
The one thing that I’m trying to sort out, especially in light of Rick Schwier’s presentation yesterday, is how I can get my math students to make meaningful contributions to this resource as well. It’s a great way for me to organize learning resources for them, but I’d really like to delve into the social learning framework if possible. I’m open to trying any ideas that you can come up with.
The wiki is at http://schellenbergmath.wikispaces.com
Please let me know what you think.
Edit: I should note as well that the way in which I’ve gotten students involved in creating the resource has been to have them record answers to questions that another students have in their assignments. Depending on the group of students, this has worked quite well. You can find examples in the “Textbook questions” section of the wiki.
Great stuff, Dan. I am teaching Math 10 this year. I’ll definitely be making use of your materials as I fumble my way through the class. I might even make up a few along the way and return the favour.
Comment by Rob Wall — January 30, 2008 @ 10:02 pm |
Hi Dan
I visited your math wiki site and think it is great, I too created a wiki with my construction 10 class. I think this is the type of create tech we can incorporate with our students. Way to go!
Comment by Corey Terry — January 31, 2008 @ 11:13 am |
I look at my son who is in first year university. He loves when the instructors have course notes, assignments etc on Web CT. He appreciates that he can refer to the notes outside of the classroom and use them to study. Having students post solutions to problems can provide the real examples that students need. I think this is a great idea.
Comment by kibrown — February 4, 2008 @ 8:32 pm |
Dan,
I like your math material but I especially appreciate the comments you post on the students response.
Comment by vicb — February 14, 2008 @ 8:38 am |